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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: / ˈ d iː z əl ˌ-s əl /, [1] German: ⓘ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German [note 1] inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.
25-year-old Rudolf Diesel Diesel's patent DRP 67 207. Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor (German: Theorie und Konstruktion eines rationellen Wärmemotors zum Ersatz der Dampfmaschine und der heute bekannten Verbrennungsmotoren; English: Theory and construction of a rational heat motor with the purpose of replacing the steam engine and the internal combustion engines known today ...
1891: The Hornsby–Akroyd oil engine – often considered a predecessor to the diesel engine – begins production. The engine was designed by English inventor Herbert Akroyd Stuart. 1892: The essay Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor is written by German engineer Rudolf Diesel.
The Motor 250/400 is the first functional diesel engine. It was designed by Rudolf Diesel, and drawn by Imanuel Lauster. The workshop of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg built two units, the A-Motor, and the B-Motor. The latter has been on static display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich since testing it came to an end.
1952 Shell Oil film showing the development of the diesel engine from 1877. The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).
Rudolf Diesel was educated in Augsburg and Munich and his works training was with Sulzer, [1] and his later co-operation with Sulzer led to the construction of the first Sulzer diesel engine in 1898. In 2015, the Sulzer company lives on but it no longer manufactures diesel engines, having sold the diesel engine business to Wärtsilä in 1997 ...
In 1892 Rudolf Diesel patented an internal combustion engine inspired by the Carnot engine. Diesel knew a Carnot engine is an ideal that cannot be built, but he thought he had invented a working approximation. His principle was unsound, but in his struggle to implement it he developed a practical Diesel engine.
1893: Diesel engine, diesel fuel and biodiesel by Rudolf Diesel in Augsburg [579] 1893: Zeppelin, the first rigid airship, [580] by Ferdinand von Zeppelin [581] 1894: Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat, the first aeroplane to be serially produced, by Otto Lilienthal [582] [583] 1895: Internal combustion engine bus by Daimler [584]